Inhaltsangabe

The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador’s telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it’s hard to know what to make of it. It’s massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

El Cavador has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big for the ship. There are claim-jumping corporate ships bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt. Worrying about a distant object that might or might not be an alien ship seems…not important.

They're wrong. It's the most important thing that has happened to the human race in a million years. The first Formic War is about to begin.

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. There is a mothership out beyond the solar system's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system.

Ender's Game

Special 20th Anniversary Edition

Autor:
Orson Scott Card

Sprecher:
Stefan Rudnicki,
Harlan Ellison,
Gabrielle de Cuir

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 57 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
455

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
245

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
248

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer-simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the result of decades of genetic experimentation, Earth's attempt to make the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast. This, the author's definitive edition, also includes an original postscript written and recorded by Orson Scott Card himself.

5 out of 5 stars

Fesselnd

Von
mitchworld
Am hilfreichsten
15.07.2007

The Singularity Trap

Autor:
Dennis E. Taylor

Sprecher:
Ray Porter

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 22 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
119

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
114

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
114

When Ivan Pritchard signs on as a newbie aboard the
Mad Astra, it's his final, desperate stab at giving his wife and children the life they deserve. He can survive the hazing of his crewmates, and how many times, really, can near-zero g make you vomit? But there's another challenge looming out there, in the farthest reaches of human exploration, that will test every man, woman and AI on the ship - and will force Ivan to confront the very essence of what makes him human.

5 out of 5 stars

Future or not

Von
Dirk Zimmermann
Am hilfreichsten
19.07.2018

Ender's Shadow

Autor:
Orson Scott Card

Sprecher:
Scott Brick,
Gabrielle de Cuir,
a Full Cast

Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 42 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
102

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
54

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
54

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters.

5 out of 5 stars

A awesome addition to Ender’s Game

Von
Niklas
Am hilfreichsten
27.12.2017

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Bobiverse, Book 1

Autor:
Dennis E. Taylor

Sprecher:
Ray Porter

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 30 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

5 out of 5 stars
672

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
644

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
643

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.

4 out of 5 stars

Vielversprechend

Von
jemand_wie_ich
Am hilfreichsten
24.01.2017

Armada

A Novel

Autor:
Ernest Cline

Sprecher:
Wil Wheaton

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 50 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
236

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
227

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
227

It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom - if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer.

2 out of 5 stars

Leider kein Vergleich zu Ready Player One

Von
J. Freese
Am hilfreichsten
02.08.2015

The Swarm

Autor:
Orson Scott Card,
Aaron Johnston

Sprecher:
Stefan Rudnicki,
Vikas Adam,
Stephen Hoye,
und andere

Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 1 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
23

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
22

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
23

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. There is a mothership out beyond the solar system's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system.

Ender's Game

Special 20th Anniversary Edition

Autor:
Orson Scott Card

Sprecher:
Stefan Rudnicki,
Harlan Ellison,
Gabrielle de Cuir

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 57 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
455

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
245

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
248

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer-simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the result of decades of genetic experimentation, Earth's attempt to make the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast. This, the author's definitive edition, also includes an original postscript written and recorded by Orson Scott Card himself.

5 out of 5 stars

Fesselnd

Von
mitchworld
Am hilfreichsten
15.07.2007

The Singularity Trap

Autor:
Dennis E. Taylor

Sprecher:
Ray Porter

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 22 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
119

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
114

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
114

When Ivan Pritchard signs on as a newbie aboard the
Mad Astra, it's his final, desperate stab at giving his wife and children the life they deserve. He can survive the hazing of his crewmates, and how many times, really, can near-zero g make you vomit? But there's another challenge looming out there, in the farthest reaches of human exploration, that will test every man, woman and AI on the ship - and will force Ivan to confront the very essence of what makes him human.

5 out of 5 stars

Future or not

Von
Dirk Zimmermann
Am hilfreichsten
19.07.2018

Ender's Shadow

Autor:
Orson Scott Card

Sprecher:
Scott Brick,
Gabrielle de Cuir,
a Full Cast

Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 42 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
102

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
54

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
54

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters.

5 out of 5 stars

A awesome addition to Ender’s Game

Von
Niklas
Am hilfreichsten
27.12.2017

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Bobiverse, Book 1

Autor:
Dennis E. Taylor

Sprecher:
Ray Porter

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 30 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

5 out of 5 stars
672

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
644

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
643

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.

4 out of 5 stars

Vielversprechend

Von
jemand_wie_ich
Am hilfreichsten
24.01.2017

Armada

A Novel

Autor:
Ernest Cline

Sprecher:
Wil Wheaton

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 50 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
236

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
227

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
227

It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom - if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer.

2 out of 5 stars

Leider kein Vergleich zu Ready Player One

Von
J. Freese
Am hilfreichsten
02.08.2015

Persepolis Rising

Autor:
James S. A. Corey

Sprecher:
Jefferson Mays

Spieldauer: 20 Std. und 34 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
150

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
140

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
140

In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship, Rocinante, have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and the Belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices.

Stimmungsvolle Umsetzung eines SF-Klassikers

Columbus Day

Expeditionary Force, Book 1

Autor:
Craig Alanson

Sprecher:
R.C. Bray

Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 23 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
264

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
260

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
259

The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the Native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon came ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There went the good old days, when humans got killed only by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.

3 out of 5 stars

nice weird AI, too much army style

Von
echee
Am hilfreichsten
11.07.2017

Leviathan Wakes

The Expanse, Book 1

Autor:
James S. A. Corey

Sprecher:
Jefferson Mays

Spieldauer: 19 Std. und 9 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
474

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
455

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
452

Far EastHumanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies. But there are tensions - the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and military clout they wield over the Belt and beyond. Now, when Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war.

3 out of 5 stars

Gute Story - Sprecher Naja

Von
Nachtflug
Am hilfreichsten
05.06.2016

Reamde

Autor:
Neal Stephenson

Sprecher:
Malcolm Hillgartner

Spieldauer: 38 Std. und 29 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
133

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
81

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
81

Richard Forthrast created T’Rain, a multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game. But T’Rain’s success has also made it a target. Hackers have struck gold by unleashing REAMDE, a virus that encrypts all of a player’s electronic files and holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly triggered a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the game’s virtual universe - and Richard is at ground zero.

5 out of 5 stars

Anders, aber immer noch sehr gut...

Von
Haekel
Am hilfreichsten
16.11.2012

Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Autor:
Brian Christian,
Tom Griffiths

Sprecher:
Brian Christian

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 50 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
224

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
193

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
193

All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such problems for decades.

5 out of 5 stars

A must read for both CS and non-CS people alike

Von
Mostafa Nageeb
Am hilfreichsten
04.01.2017

The Long Earth

Autor:
Terry Pratchett,
Stephen Baxter

Sprecher:
Michael Fenton Stevens

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 30 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
118

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
98

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
99

The Western Front, 1916. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? Madison, Wisconsin, 2015. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget: a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a potato. It is the prototype of a life-changing invention....

5 out of 5 stars

Großes Kino!

Von
Constanze
Am hilfreichsten
24.09.2012

Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection

Autor:
Arthur Conan Doyle,
Stephen Fry - introductions

Sprecher:
Stephen Fry

Spieldauer: 71 Std. und 57 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

5 out of 5 stars
481

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
464

Geschichte

5 out of 5 stars
461

Ever since he made his first appearance in
A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's
Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the complete works of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and five collections of short stories.

5 out of 5 stars

BEST EVER! Sherlock Holmes in vollem Glanz

Von
Thomas Egatnav
Am hilfreichsten
02.04.2017

Children of the Fleet

Autor:
Orson Scott Card

Sprecher:
Stefan Rudnicki

Spieldauer: 11 Std. und 37 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4 out of 5 stars
5

Sprecher

5 out of 5 stars
5

Geschichte

4 out of 5 stars
5

Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships, and colonies.

The Diamond Age

Autor:
Neal Stephenson

Sprecher:
Jennifer Wiltsie

Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 32 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
59

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
20

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
21

Neal Stephenson - "the hottest science fiction writer in America" - takes science fiction to dazzling new levels.
The Diamond Age is a stunning tale; set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens what a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life - and the entire future of humanity - is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.

3 out of 5 stars

Just Sounds Terrible

Von
InsideMan
Am hilfreichsten
06.02.2010

Ancillary Justice

The Imperial Radch series, Book 1

Autor:
Ann Leckie

Sprecher:
Adjoa Andoh

Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 40 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
83

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
79

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
79

The spectacular debut novel nominated for every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, a James Tiptree Jr. honour and a Kitschie. Currently shortlisted for the Hugo Awards. They made me kill thousands, but I only have one target now.

3 out of 5 stars

Potential: ja . Umsetzung: naja

Von
daniel goebel
Am hilfreichsten
21.05.2017

Terms of Enlistment

Frontlines, Book 1

Autor:
Marko Kloos

Sprecher:
Luke Daniels

Spieldauer: 9 Std. und 36 Min.

Ungekürztes

Gesamt

4.5 out of 5 stars
67

Sprecher

4.5 out of 5 stars
65

Geschichte

4.5 out of 5 stars
65

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you’re restricted to 2,000 calories of badly flavored soy every day. You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth.

Geschichte

Back to the roots

If you liked "Enders Game", you will love this book! While the later Ender/Shadow sequels were mostly philosophical in nature, this one returns to the fast paced style of the original. There is a lot more action, yet "Earth Unaware" does not sacrifice any of the deep character relations which are the hallmark of OSC's writing. The voice acting is great and helps to emphasize the different character perspectives. All in all a superb prequel!

great but...

the story, or idea is great but, to me, the physics and details is just too weak at a few intervals; i mean, speed? in space? have to break/stop for EVAs? i had expected more from the mind behind Ender's game. (Relative velocity, come on, how hard is that to grasp?)